75 years ago - City gains from raids on 'gaming machines'

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LACONIA — The city's coffers were $101.50 richer, Jan. 28, 1935, "as a result of raids made Saturday evening (Jan. 26) by police on gaming machines," The Citizen reported, 75 years ago this week.

The money represented "the sum total of fines and costs turned into the city treasury by the seven resondents" who appeared before Judge Harry E. Trapp in municipal court, charged with "keeping a place resorted to for the purpose of gambling."

The gaming devices "were loaded into the police car and removed to police headquarters where they were dismantled and the money was removed. This morning there were 18 machines of various sizes and descriptions in the police office."

The 14 gaming devices confiscated by the police were to be destroyed, Jan. 30.

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